Barkin' Dog Duathlon - DuathlonStandard

Went out with the lead group. Schubert and another guy immediately gapped us. Hit the first mile marker in 5:43 and thought "That's probably a little fast", just went with it though as I was hanging with this lead pack and not feeling bad at all. Mile marker 2 came in well under 12 minutes as well. Still felt good and pushed the small hill that led back to transition.

Nothing. I'm happy with the first run

Got to transition, threw my helmet on, and pulled my bike off the rack. The racks were so low I had to rack my bike by the brakes. In doing so I pulled the cable out of my SRM. Other than that transition went fine.

Rack by saddle, but had no choice in the matter

Got out out of transition and immediately noticed no rolling numbers on the SRM. The only data I had was date, time, and air temp. I grabbed the cable and saw it was disconnected. To reconnect it I would've had to stop and reattach. Chose not to do so and just go by heart rate and perceived exertion. Dunkelberger came by me and I sat up for a second to get out of the draft zone and let my HR come down a little bit. After my heart rate settled I put in a big effort, went by him and put a lot of time into him before the turnaround. The only two people left were Kevin Weed and Schubert. I got Kevin at about 12 miles but couldn't put any significant time into him. Headed into T2 and thought I really need to rock transition to keep my position.

Not much. My bike fitness feels good right now. Held over 25mph so I can't complain. HR was a little low, but I think that's due to the previous week's training and overreaching a little bit.

Just tried to be quick as possible here. Still could stand to be faster.

Nothing

Felt fine and got my running legs under pretty quick, but I knew I was gonna be significantly slower on the second run. I was having to concentrate pretty hard to keep from slowing down any more than I already was. The pace actually felt like short 7's and not the short 6's that it was. Kevin pulled on me at the first mile marker. I tried to go with him, but was unable to sustain.

Better pacing throughout the race would've helped better in the final run, but not a big deal.

Didn't really warm down. I should have done a cooldown jog and stretched, but I was waiting for my wife to come in and didn't want to miss it.


Low priority/train through race


I'm really happy with this race. I went almost 5 minutes faster than last year. Both running and cycling has improved significantly and this was a good early season test. I wish I had my power data, but oh well. May have been able to go little faster had I rode my disc and 1080. The tires glued on those has a pretty significant lower CRR than the Conti's. My wife (hotrodmeg) kicked some serious bootie with 2nd place in AG, and less than a minute off of first. I'm super proud of her!